immigration

From the Field

The Emergence of Transnational Queer Organizing Across a Hardening US–Canada Border

Elizabeth Hessek - 30 September 2025

LGTBQ+ refugees in the United States not only face the violence of the nation’s immigration policy but are also...

From the Field

Immigration in the French Countryside

Julie Fromentin & translated by Oliver Waine - 27 February 2024

What place do immigrants occupy in the French countryside? By examining detailed data from the last five decades,...

From the Field

A “Migration Crisis”? The Myths and Realities of France’s Immigration Figures

Camille Gourdeau & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 March 2022

Is France experiencing a “migration crisis”? Based on a statistical analysis of immigration figures, Camille Gourdeau...

Interviews

Migration and Inequalities: The Importance of Social Class

Garance Clément & Claire Gellereau & Hélène Steinmetz & Anne-Catherine Wagner & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 November 2021

Since the 1990s, Anne-Catherine Wagner’s research has focused on migrants from the most affluent classes in society....

Reviews

The Belhoumi Family and the Sociologist

Adèle Momméja & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 October 2021

What are the objective and intimate conditions for the social ascension of the children of immigrants? And what roles...

Reviews

Queens, New York: A Global Microcosm

Susie J. Tanenbaum - 4 May 2021

Susie J. Tanenbaum reviews Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, New York,...

From the Field

The Asylum Story: Narrative Capital and International Protection

Emily Reid - 2 February 2021

Obtaining international protection relies upon an ability to successfully navigate the host country’s asylum regime....

From the Field

Post-Election Dispatches from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Jamie Longazel - 22 December 2020

Jamie Longazel reflects on organizing for the 2020 general election in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. A longtime...

From the Field

Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth

Stephen P. Ruszczyk - 4 June 2019

The urban context and public transportation shape how undocumented youths move within cities. In a comparison of New...

Essays

The Treatment of “North Africans” in 1960s Urban Renewal in France

Janoé Vulbeau & translated by Oliver Waine - 1 February 2019

While France’s 1960s urban renewal has been studied in terms of its effects on the working classes, its racial...

Essays

Migrants’ Occupation of Lycée Jean Quarré: The Refugee Cause and the Cause of a Neighborhood

Isabelle Coutant & translated by Oliver Waine - 16 November 2018

The flows of migrants seeking refuge in Europe since the summer of 2015 have led to temporary settlements—legal or...

Essays

The Educational Fortunes of Children of Immigrants in France

Mathieu Ichou & translated by Oliver Waine - 6 July 2018

How can the attainment gap between children of immigrants and children of native-born parents be explained? While...

From the Field

Taste of Home: A Sociocultural Exploration of Food Habits and Health Among Bangladeshi Immigrants in New York City

Fatema Kamal - 22 May 2018

Resettlement in an entirely different country may have drastic consequences for an individual’s health. This is...

From the Field

Immigrant Men and Voluntary Work in a Swiss City

Agnès Aubry - 15 May 2018

Across Europe, refugees and immigrants find themselves in uncertain civil and legal territory; precariousness infuses...

From the Field

No Lawful Status: Immigrant Youth in a State of Exclusion

Alexis Silver - 24 October 2017

When the Trump administration rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, nearly 800,000...

From the Field

Citizen Outsider: Racism, Marginalization, and Immigration in France

Jean Beaman - 31 May 2017

As refugee crises have emerged and immigration has increased in many regions of the world, several Western countries...

From the Field

The Evolution of New York City’s Black Neighborhoods

John Mollenkopf - 9 May 2017

Especially in the central cities of the Northeast, neighborhoods that were once identified with black politics and...

Reviews

Immigrants and Transnational Citizenship

Fernando Aquino - 14 February 2017

In spite of the loud fear-mongering about immigration and borders in the US and Europe, sociologists have found that...

From the Field

Struggles over Rights and Representations in the Migrant Metropolis: Reverberations of the Trump Effect in the Global South

María V. Barbero - 7 December 2016

While Latin America figures in US debates about immigration as a source of immigrants, Trump-style anti-immigrant...

Essays

Cracks Where the Light Gets in: Recent Legal Breakthroughs in Detention and Crimmigration in Canada

Petra Molnar & Stephanie J. Silverman - 7 December 2016

While the criminalization of immigrants has been pervasive—leading many to adopt the word “crimmigration”—that does...

Essays

This is Not How it Ends: Post-Election Immigration Organizing in the United States

Folasade K. Famakinwa - 7 December 2016

In response to a tense post-election moment in the US, the Metropolitics editorial committee has initiated...

From the Field

A Welcoming (and Sometimes Not) America: Immigrant Integration in the New South

Anna Joo Kim - 1 November 2016

In a departure from traditional patterns of migrant settlement in the US, a cluster of ethnoburbs is emerging in...

Reviews

Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York

Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 21 October 2016

Frederick Wiseman’s fortieth documentary film, In Jackson Heights (2015), returns to an urban theme explored in...

From the Field

Looking Inward, Across the Border

Harel Shapira - 19 April 2016

In the constellation of anti-immigrant politics in the United States, groups like the Minutemen, civilians who patrol...

Essays

Migrant Destinies

Sylvaine Bulle & Laetitia Tura & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 January 2014

Although borders are often invisible, they govern people’s right to move freely, as well as clandestine migration...

Reviews

The March for Equality and Against Racism: the “Migrants’ May 1968”?

Muriel Cohen & translated by Oliver Waine - 4 December 2013

Abdellali Hajjat looks back at the event that went down in history as the “Marche des Beurs” (“Arabs’ March”), and...

Reviews

Migration and globalization: a tragic tale

Olivier Thomas & translated by Oliver Waine - 30 October 2013

At a time when flows of capital, goods and information are increasing, more and more material, ideological and...

From the Field

Château Rouge: a “Little Africa” in Paris?

Marie Chabrol & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 May 2013

The Château Rouge area of Paris is regarded as an “African neighbourhood”. But what is the reality behind this image?...

Essays

Quotas of foreigners in social housing: a legacy of the Algerian War? Les Canibouts, Nanterre (1959–1968)

Marie-Claude Blanc-Chaléard & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 April 2012

Was it better to concentrate or disperse Algerians during the Algerian War? In the course of the conflict, both...

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